The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
PERSONAL.

A MONUMENT to the memory of President Har-
rison is to be erected in Cincinnati.
DANIEL DoUGHEKTY is going to visit Guernsey
and Jersey, the English Channel islands.
GEN. TcHERNATrEFF, it is said will succeed M.
Katkoff as editor of the Moscow Gazette.
CRusus MAs,ISAY says that he finds nothing in
European capitals to equal the comforts he en-
joys in New York
Iowa statistics show that 953 women own
farms in that State. OF the number only Is are
carrying mortgages.
THE Shah of Persia is gradually losing his
hearing. Two ear trumpetS have been ordered
by his physician from Paris.
THE Emperor of Brazil not only planted
tree in the grounds of NJ. Elimination, the
French astronomer, but dug the hole to contain
the tree.
Mrs. FLOYD of Boston has invented water
proof bonnet, which is handsome and dresSy
enough for almost any occasion, and is abso-
lutey inlperyous to water.
BISHOP CHATARD, of Indianapolis, at a com
plmentary dinner at his residence, received a
plate of gold coin amounting to 81 600 from the
clergy of Nincennes diocese.
IT is SAID that Queen Kapiolani's English has
been much improved by her recent tour. kala
kaua considers her tongue Sandwich about as
usual in its strength and piquaney.
SENATOR FRYE says that during his trip abroad
he found few satisfactory meals and beds. He
thinks the English people decidedly lacking in
the essentials of eating and sleeping.
PRINCE BISMARCK will celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary Of his assumption of the Offices
of PrIssian foreign minister and Prussian prime
minister on Sept. 3D. and Oct respectively
COUNTESS CASA MIRANDA, of Madrid, a ven
cradle lady Of 100 years, the mother of Christine
Missions husband has been seized with conges-
ton of the brain and is not expected to live.
AND now IL is said that Senator Riddleberger
80 s,hN xtrifl T,Her
dleberger seems TO be a good deal more fitted by
nature for breaking the laws than for making
them.
BELvA LOCKWOOD says IL Mrs Cleveland will
consent TO head the womans ticket next year,
she will receive q monster vote. Mrs. Cleve-
land properly accepts the suggestion as a bit Of
humor.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER is of the opinion that
two-thrds Of the men of to-day would rather be
Jay Gould than James Russell Lowell And
probably nearly all men would rather be George
Gould than either one OF them.
REV DR. Tw1rcuELL, of Hartford. Conn, has
q large family of children. Growing tired Of Sc
lecting names he dubbed bis tenth child '"Ten-
ny, " name as euphonious as 1t is significant.
Since then he hos had two more children, but
has not given them numerical names.
JAMES ASHLEY is thought 10 be the coming
railroad man of the country. He is only 80
years old, and resides in Detroit, yet he controls
two roads and holds a controlling interest in
several others. He is at present engaged in
pushing lines through Northern Michigan.
CHARLES SUMMERS private secretary, Arnold
B. johnson, speaks of the great statesman's
sweet tooth in a current magazine article.
Sumner especially fond of chocolate
creams, and held that as long as be could eat
candy his digestion was in good order He
never smoked, and never tasted of whisky but
once.
Mas. CLEVELAND has grown very brown at
Marion. Her complexion Is one which is i'm
proved by q coat Or tan, and she now looks like
a Spanish beauty The name Donna Frances"
which was given her by her friends at Wells
College, has followed her TO her present abiding
place, and even the country folk about Marion
oil her by that romantic title.